This month, all my A to Z Challenge posts will feature a song that is on my personal list of “deep cuts.” These are songs that my husband often razzes me about, that there’s no one else who has ever heard of them or is listening to them, or they’re songs that possibly are just not that mainstream. If we are of the same era or run in the same musical taste circles, none of these may seem that off the beaten path, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t fun songs! Enjoy!

I graduated high school smack dab in the middle of the ’80s so my musical taste leans heavily in favor of all tunes from that decade. My all time favorite band in high school was Duran Duran. I bought all their albums on vinyl, and I often visited our local record store to dig through the imports section to find anything from them there. My Duran Duran collection was impressive.

Most people developed their fandom of that band after the album Rio came out. I was no different. That was the album that introduced me to Duran Duran, but I became so into them that I started listening to everything they did before Rio came out, which is how I discovered the song I am sharing today. It did pick up some popularity after Rio, but generally speaking, the only people who are strongly familiar with “Girls on Film” are Duran Duran super fans. When the video was played on MTV, it was a censored version because the original contains nudity, so that also was intriguing to me — that there were 2 versions of a video for a song I loved by a band I loved!

Here’s the video that aired on MTV — not the one with nudity! Are you familiar with this Duran Duran song? It’s probably my 2nd favorite song by them!